Inflation of explicit build requirements

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 17:25:44 +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:

> That leaves autoconf, automake, byacc/bison and libtool (maybe). What
> about the idea to make these (plus the packages you mentioned) an
> explicit requirement for rpm-build?

rpm-build's purpose is not in defining a build environment. Hence I doubt,
the package will be extended with dependencies. On the contrary, with its
dependencies, fedora-rpmdevtools serves as a meta package.